I am in an auction league this year, my first one. I have my pick of a few teams to take over. Could you please rank the top three teams you would want to take over and let me know which players from the team you would keep. It looks like it will be a 8-10 team league with a $260 salary cap. I can keep as many players as I want as long as I stay within my salary cap. Scoring is 1 pt. for double, 2 pts. for triple, -0.5 for each AB, 1 pt. for BB, 2.5 pts for a hit, 3 pts. for a HR, -0.5 for a K, 1 pt for a run, 1 pt per RBI, and 2 pts per SB. Pitching categories are -0.5 per BBI, -2 per ER, -1 per HA, -0.5 per HB, 3 pt per inning, 0.5 per K, -4 per Loss, 3 pts per QS, 7 pts per save, and 6 pts. per win. If I choose to keep a player it will be at 20% higher than the listed price and the contract year would then be one less. We start 1 C, 1 1B, 1 2B, 1 3B, 1 SS, 3 OF, 1 U, 4 SP, 1 RP, 1 SP or RP and 10 Reserve. Here's a list of my team options:

Thanks for the help on mine. Sorry, I know I said WHIR, but your question is crazy complicated and I need to get to bed soon. I also have never played a points league, nor auction... so I'd probably spend two hours trying to figure out what I'd do if I were you and still give bad advice.

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Team B looks like your best bet if you want to go for it this year, Youk and Dusty are 2 big bats for cheap, but if you lose a year of their contract that means you only have them for this year so you're committed to a "win now" strategy

Team C looks like your best bet if you want to go into your auction with a solid nucleus and as much extra cash as possible, but it depends on whether or not you think there will big names available to bid on with all that cash you freed up

Team D looks like the best middle ground, and is probably the one I'd go for, that is a damn good price for Cano even with the 20% bump plus you get studs like Cruz, Wilson for at least 2 years at a fraction of their market worth

I am in an auction league this year, my first one. I have my pick of a few teams to take over. Could you please rank the top three teams you would want to take over and let me know which players from the team you would keep. It looks like it will be a 8-10 team league with a $260 salary cap. I can keep as many players as I want as long as I stay within my salary cap. Scoring is 1 pt. for double, 2 pts. for triple, -0.5 for each AB, 1 pt. for BB, 2.5 pts for a hit, 3 pts. for a HR, -0.5 for a K, 1 pt for a run, 1 pt per RBI, and 2 pts per SB. Pitching categories are -0.5 per BBI, -2 per ER, -1 per HA, -0.5 per HB, 3 pt per inning, 0.5 per K, -4 per Loss, 3 pts per QS, 7 pts per save, and 6 pts. per win. If I choose to keep a player it will be at 20% higher than the listed price and the contract year would then be one less. We start 1 C, 1 1B, 1 2B, 1 3B, 1 SS, 3 OF, 1 U, 4 SP, 1 RP, 1 SP or RP and 10 Reserve. Here's a list of my team options: